How about you,
Coyote? What are your thoughts on immigration?
I think any immigration strategy has to be comprehensive. I agree we have to have good border security, but absolutely reject the idea of a wall - it's costly, destructive to the communitees along the border region, and environmentally damaging in terms of species movements and migrations. There is a hell of a lot of good technology out there -we should use that.
I also feel that we need to focus on the LEGAL side - why such a bottleneck that means years before a person can enter? If we close the illegal end, we should open the legal end. We need skilled and invovative workers - particularly in the high tech industries that benefit by hiring foreign workers - we should not be ending that. There is also a huge need for agricultural labor. Like it or not - Americans don't want to do it and don't want those wages. How is the dairy industry going to get it's cows milk and the orange groves get picked? We need a legal avenue to address those needs - doesn't have to be citizenship, they probabably don't WANT citizenship, but temporary work visas instead. I also strongly support the "dreamer" act. Kids who are brought over don't have a choice and should not be punished. They are as American as you or I, having grown up in our culture - they deserve a chance. I fully support deporting those who have committed violent crimes - in fact, I think that should be expidited with few appeals. But I don't like the idea of coming down on those who have not committed violent crimes and especially think breaking up families in this way is wrong. I'd rather focus on stopping it at the border, opening legal avenues and deporting serious criminals.
That's my take on it
